Of SuperPACs and democracy

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Last year, Politico made a list of the funniest SuperPAC names they've found around during the last election campaign:

1. Raptors for Jesus
2. Bears for a Bearable Tomorrow
3. Talkin’ Smack PAC
4. Cats for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
5. Science!
6. Buck Up to Beef Up America
7. DogPAC
8. Peeps PAC
9. Winning Our Liberty and Future (Wolf) PAC
10. I Ride Inside – The Pets Against Romney Committee
11. Same vs the Machine
12. Why Not ZoidPAC?
13. Just Drink the Koolaid
14. The Internet
15. A SuperPAC
16. Joe Six PAC
17. Americans for More Rhombus

And Stephen Colbert made an extensive series of spoofs on the subject, and he even created his own SuperPAC, aiming to ridicule this new phenomenon, but also to attract public attention to the issue.

That said, the issue of SuperPACs has been rather serious. There are lots of concerns about this new development in election campaigning, huge money from undisclosed sources now flowing into big politics with little to no restrictions, and close to zero requirements for transparency.

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